• Degree in Chemistry, Oxford University.
• Former A+ PC Technician, Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer and Microsoft Certified SQL Server DBA.
• Former Business Information Architect.
• Qualified Accountant Technician and business owner.
• Experience with REST APIs, GraphQL, React, Vue, Web Components, Node, Docker
• Talks and workshops given at WordCamps, MeetUps and NDC. VIEW SPEAKING

• 🌐 https://python-test-engineer.netlify.app/
• 📫 mrcraigwest@hotmail.com
• 🖥️ https://www.youtube.com/@iwswordpress/featured

A number of 'one click install with templates' TEST_SUITES.

Documenation and repository: https://python-testing.netlify.app/

A list of talks and workshops I have given:

• TALK: Offline and instant websites, aka Progressive Web Apps - AsyncJS, Brighton, September 2021.

• LIGHTNING TALK: WordPress as a Micro Service to any framework - WordFest, July 2021.

• TALK: WP REST API and Web Components => 100% Internet - WordCamp Santa Clarita, July 2021.

• TALK: Web Components in WP, Gutenberg and as HTML plugins. - WordCamp North East Ohio May 2021.

• TALK: Leveraging the power or the WordPress REST API - WP Leeds April 2021

• WORKSHOP: WP REST API and you -> Best Friends Forever workshop (90 mins) - WordCamp Greece April 2021. Code: https://github.com/iwswordpress/WordCampGreece

• TALK: Web Components as Micro Apps - NDC London, Jan 2021

• TALK: Unifying frameworks with Web Components - Brighton AsyncJS, Nov 2020.

• WORKSHOP: Progressive Web Apps Workshop (2hrs) - NDC Oslo June 2020 and a paid training workshop with NDC.

• WORKSHOP: Web Components Workshop (2hrs) - NDC Oslo June 2020 and a paid training workshope with NDC.

• WORKSHOP: Progressive Web Apps Workshop (2hrs) - Brighton WordUp June 2020.

• WORKSHOP: WordPress REST API with AJAX Forms and Pages - WordCamp Denver, June 2020.

• WORKSHOP: WordPress REST API with AJAX Forms and Pages - WordCamp Kent, Ohio May 2020.

• TALK: What is the WP REST API and how can I use it to make forms and pages that don’t need to do be reloaded? - WordUp Brighton May 2020.

• WORKSHOP: WordPress REST API and AJAX Forms - WordCamp Geneva March 2020 [EVENT CANCELLED due to virus concerns :( ]

• TALK - WP-HTML: The marriage of WP and JS Frameworks for expansion, ubiquity and profit - WordCamp Vienna February 2020.

• WORKSHOP: WordPress REST API - WordCamp Vienna February 2020.

• TALK: Progressive Web Apps - Brighton WordUp November 2019.

• TALK: Decoupled WordPress (code along style) - WordCamp Dublin October 2019.

• TALK: JWT and Authentication - WPHooked London September 2019

• TALK: Decoupled WordPress and WP Components - WordCamp Brighton August 2019.

Udemy is a great learning platform and having sales at least once a month, courses can be purchased for ~ £15/$15 USD.

These have now been retired.

• WordPress REST API and AJAX Forms/Pages - DEMO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eubhbcGH_Ws&t=6s (paid)
• Progressive Web Apps - DEMO https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_lHvNL0gkw (paid)
• WP-HTML: decoupling WordPress to any HTML platform using Web Components and the WP REST API. This also enables HTML plugins for non-WP Sites - https://www.udemy.com/course/powerful-html-pages-using-wordpress-component-architecture/ (free)
• Stylish Dynamic Web Forms with jQuery validation - https://www.udemy.com/course/ready-to-use-form-validation-templates-with-jquery/ (free)

These are video courses that cover work through official documents to help other developers, learn in public and show prosepective employers not just what I know but how I learn and how I communicate technical matters to others.

There are also some specific videos explaining solutions to set ups other developers may encounter.

• ✔️ HIGHLY-FUNCTIONAL-WEBCOMPONENTS: A video course based on the workshop I gave at NDC Oslo June 2020 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QC-JTqQTv2k&list=PLsszRSbzjyvkQwzrJobroRl7z7MfSlePa

• ✔️ WP Plugin Boilerplate: I havea video series to explain WP Plugin Boilerplate using a scaffolded out project that demonstrates the use of MySQL, wp_nonce, REST API, forms and how to redirect pages to plugin templates to make the plugin theme independent. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJ9ktD4JOfs&list=PLsszRSbzjyvn-RQr4dEjrgnTne2HcJKee

I volounteer at Codebar.io in Brighton.

These include Community Kitchens, gym, occasional partner dancing and DIY.